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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Heldburg (City of Heldburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadtheldburg Gültig bis 1 Monat nach Aufruf Heldburg 1921 Fünfzig Pfennig 1. Bürgermeister Stadtkämmerer Schneider & Co. Ilmenau i/Thür. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red, black, and beige tones with a dark decorative border. The central vignette presents a detailed colour illustration of 'Heldburgs ältestes Haus' (Heldburg's oldest house), a traditional Thuringian half-timbered structure with a steeply pitched roof, rendered in a picturesque genre scene with a horse-drawn cart and figures in the foreground. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large red type in the upper corners, with the word 'Pfennig' in red Gothic script in the lower corners; flanking text panels carry the rhyming motto 'Steht unsre Mark im Kurs auch schlecht / Das Mark im deutschen Arm ist echt!' |
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Heldburg is a small Thuringian market town whose principal claim to historical notice is the Veste Heldburg, a hilltop fortress that Kaiser Wilhelm II later renovated as a personal project — a detail that lent the town a mildly outsized sense of its own importance. This 50 Pfennig Notgeld was issued in 1921, well into the second wave of German municipal emergency currency, when the post-war coin shortage had dragged on long enough that towns of even modest size were commissioning their own series from regional printers.
Schneider & Co. in Ilmenau handled a substantial volume of Thuringian Notgeld output during this period. The DeNG reference grouping 2#594.1-3/6 suggests at least six distinct varieties within the series, consistent with the collector-targeted multi-note sets that became common by 1921.